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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contributed White Papers." National Research Council. 1999. Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9460.
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Appendix B Contributed White Papers

The following white papers were prepared and distributed to the workshop participants as provocative authored articles; they were designed to stimulate thought and were not peer reviewed. Authors did not have the opportunity to make revisions after the workshop. The papers (generally two to three pages long) are available on the World Wide Web at http://www4.nas.edu/cger/besr.nsf following hyperlinks to Mapping Science Committee, reports, distributed geolibraries, white papers. This web site will be maintained at least through the end of 2000.

What Is a Geolibrary? Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara

What Is a Geolibrary? Clifford A. Kottman, Open GIS Consortium

Making the Case for Distributed GeoLibraries Barbara P. Buttenfield, University of Colorado, Boulder

Confidence in Distributed Digital Geolibraries Roberta E. Lenczowski, National Imagery and Mapping Agency

Data Quality in Distributed GeoLibraries Rex W. Tracy, GDE Systems, Inc.

National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive: "A National Asset" Thomas M. Holm, U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contributed White Papers." National Research Council. 1999. Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9460.
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Possible Research Topics Related to Geolibraries Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara

Distributed Geolibraries: Challenges and Opportunities from a Computing and Scientific Data Management Perspective Mike Folk, National Center for Supercomputer Applications, University of Illinois

Geolibrary and Statewide Electronic Atlas, Nina Lam, Louisiana State University

Putting The User First: Implications for the Geolibrary A. Keith Turner, Colorado School of Mines

Geolibraries Walter Senus, National Imagery and Mapping Agency

Producer Rights and Public Rights in Spatial Data Sets in Geolibraries Harlan J. Onsrud, University of Maine

Distributed Geolibraries Patrick McGlamery, University of Connecticut

Geolibrary Access of Historical Climate Data Publications in the NOAA Library Gerald S. Barton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Geolibraries: Integration into to the Life Cycle of Information Creation and Use Linda L. Hill, Alexandria Digital Library Project, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Geodata Network Kenn Gardels, University of California, Berkeley

What is a Geolibrary? Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contributed White Papers." National Research Council. 1999. Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9460.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Contributed White Papers." National Research Council. 1999. Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9460.
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A distributed geolibrary is a vision for the future. It would permit users to quickly and easily obtain all existing information available about a place that is relevant to a defined need. It is modeled on the operations of a traditional library, updated to a digital networked world, and focused on something that has never been possible in the traditional library: the supply of information in response to a geographically defined need. It would integrate the resources of the Internet and the World Wide Web into a simple mechanism for searching and retrieving information relevant to a wide range of problems, including natural disasters, emergencies, community planning, and environmental quality. A geolibrary is a digital library filled with geoinformation-information associated with a distinct area or footprint on the Earth's surface-and for which the primary search mechanism is place. A geolibrary is distributed if its users, services, metadata, and information assets can be integrated among many distinct locations.

This report presents the findings of the Workshop on Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, convened by the Mapping Science Committee of the National Research Council in June 1998. The report is a vision for distributed geolibraries, not a blueprint. Developing a distributed geolibrary involves a series of technical challenges as well as institutional and social issues, which are addressed relative to the vision.

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